Hmmm...not what I expected at all.Look at these beautiful "Paris Blue" glass bottles!!Instant love...

And look at this glam poster - so evocative of the 50'sThere are many more of these and you can own them!Quite a few online sites are selling empty vintage perfumebottles..Isn't this tasseled purse flacon dreamy? A bit of history on BOURJOIS...In 1863, Monsieur Alexandre Napoleon Bourjois was busy concocting superior makeup for actresses. He came up with the first powder blush,Pastel Joues. The fashion spread from the theatre to the masses.You can still find these little round pots of blush in Monoprix.The perfumes came later... I love this bit of BOURJOIS vintage advertising.Just 2 weeks...14 days till I am therein PARIS!So yesterday while searching for the color Paris Blue,on an impulse I bought the vintage perfume bottle I painted above..The description reads:A small amount of eau de cologne is left in this vintage Evening in Paris cobalt blue perfume bottle. Original silver cap. Original silver paper label must have been made for consumption in France as it reads: Soir de Paris which means Evening in Paris in French.

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Love your little watercolored bottles. I think I had some of that perfume once. (or I had some in a tiny blue bottle that color, anyway. I forget the name of it.) Beautiful colors. Fun post--you must be getting really psyched to head back to see your muse. ;))

I see we are giddy with excitement for the Paris take off date. I think the impusle buy was a good one.. I can see many paintings coming with that it them.. a very good investment. ;-) I also remember a small bottle similar to that, that my Grandmother and Mother had and used, simply called 'Evening in Paris'. Probably was cologne but it was bottled in blue, and I loved it. Paris meant Romance to me even then. I posted an old tea cup on my post last night that was my Aunts Grandmother's, who was born in 1880, so it's really old & was broken in an earthquake in CA, but has that intense blue in the design.Cool post today.

Gorgeous painting. I love those bottles. I had a look at the posters too I think I NEED some of these. As always happens when you do all your colour posts the colour blue (Paris Blue no less)caught my eye this morning... my cat's food bowl, my exercise ball and the lid of my daughter's formula tin. Hopefully when I leave the house I will see more interesting blue things. Looking forward to your blog when you return to Paris. Leanne

A very beautiful post! Look, what 12 Dollars can do for one's imagination: Priceless!I googled for Preußischblau and found this website, which gives you the different color names, also in languages other than German.

A very beautiful post! Look, what 12 Dollars can do for one's imagination: Priceless!I googled for Preußischblau and found this website, which gives you the different color names, also in languages other than German.

such beautiful blues arriving in my inbox... they remind me of our Bristol Blue glassware, but with more romance :-) From one person with poor impulse control to another, I'd say that was $12 well spent :-)

Ah, my innocent one, you are so very, very limited in your view: The ENTIRE WORLD is a very dangerous place if you lack impuse control! Believe me, I speak from sad, but thrilling, experience.Speaking of things Parisian from our mothers, my mother had a notepad of paper called "Evening in Paris". It was about 5 x 8 inches and the sheet was ombre - blue to pink, like the Parisian sky - or even the Kansas sky on a winter evening. I coveted that paper so! I retain a paper obsession to this day.

Dear Jeanette, Mistress of Longears Don't you know you can NEVER warn someone off Impulse Control???It helps if you can spell it too. Which shows a certain lack of I.C. to me.. Don't worry, I mispelled it too when I wrote this post-"Implus" sounds better IMO.I have been led by I.C. so much it's downright ridiculous!Would PARIS BREAKFASTS be here if I had plenty of I.C.?I think not...

MERCI Marie-Noëlle!Ever the research queen you have opened new doors for me. Now I MUST go to GRASSE or else! TANKS :)

TLB I have always avoided Indenthrone like the plague. Don't know why but now I WILL try it!

Let me know how the Indanthrone experiement works out for you. I use Daniel Smith's version. It is creamy and luscious and completely scrub-outable (an important attribute in my painting!), and 'plays well with others'. Truely my current new favorite on my palette.

Hi , I found your blog when i Gooogled 'Soir de Paris' perfume bottle. My grandmother had a small bottle which came in a little blue box shaped like a door with two tiny pairs of shoes outside ,(a mans and a womans ). I loved looking at it and i always hope to come across one in online auctions.Your painting of the bottles is lovely . What an interesting site !

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l'Ile Saint Louis, Paris, Ile de France, France

Hi I'm Carol Gillott,
My Mom taught me watercolors at 5 and I'm still at it. Now I live by the Seine on l'Ile Saint-Louis. Do consider subscribing to my Paris letters and maps on Etsy and enjoy a taste of Paris in your mailbox every month to savor with a hot chocolate and croissant. I paint Paris dreams.